Office vacancy in Mtn View is a bit below 10%-- down from a year ago, up a bit from the beginning of '08. This is better than the Peninsula at large, also better than Silicon Valley overall. The market is slowing down, however.

Really, though, that isnt all that relevant. None of these new buildings will be ready for occupancy for a good year or more. Impossible to say what market conditions will be at that point, but its likely that the developers taking a risk now in a weaker market are making a decent bet on the future.

Posted by VC
a resident of another community
on Jul 26, 2008 at 6:09 pm

A lot of the vacant office and industrial buildings in Mountain View are of the smaller, single-story variety left over from the 1960's and 70's - too small, inefficient, unusable, poorly designed and constructed, insufficiently wired, insulated, lit, etc. I think a lot of these are the ones that remain vacant nowadays because they are now considered obsolete in this day of the sleek, iconic, "Class A" corporate headquarters.